Serge Knystautas dijo: > Antonio Gallardo wrote: >> ie: MS can see the forking as a way to break the Java platform. They >> already tried to make it some years ago and failed. But make some harm. >> Even Sun sued them for this. >> >> The scenario is not easy: >> >> If Java is divided, we lose. > > I respectfully disagree. I think (some of) what Microsoft did with Java > was good. In the long-run it may have hurt Java, but they dropped out > before there were any problems. > > Two points: > > 1. Early on, Microsoft wrote a much better JVM implementation. The > Microsoft JVM 1.1 was much faster than Sun's win32 implementation at the > time. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I see many wrong here. Just to refresh the mind: http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-225523.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-227105.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-251401.html > 2. IMHO JDirect is better than JNI. JNI allows for 100% Java purity, > but in the meantime Java is 7 years old, and it's still a huge pain to > use ActiveX components. Python gets to be as the best glueware tool. I > don't care about losing to C#... we're losing more ground to Python. I care about losing in favor of C#, then wil come .NET and after that XAML. It is something we need to care. > >> By doing a potential Java forking, MS can take advantage and make C# >> win. >> But, if Java is licensed under GPL it will be hard to make an >> intentional >> fork at all. >> >> My ideas are posted in my too primitive english. I hope the point is >> clear >> now. > > I think they come across well. I'm just in the camp that more > competition is better, and that's why I like ASF licensing since it > allows for more competition. Note, if I will not like the ASF License, I will not been here. ;-) I am in the camp where more FAIR competition is better. This is why we need to leverage a player camp without a potential one-vendor lock-in. Under this schema, Linux serves well to this purpose and Java is the other key piece of this player camp. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
